The last couple of days, I’ve seen lots of posts on social about parents being outraged at the Super Bowl halftime show. Great. It was everything you’ve claimed it to be. We certainly shouldn’t be celebrating it.
What’s not so great is the number that refer to how “their 8-year-old” should not have to watch those things. Or how “they had to explain to their 8-year-old why that wasn’t an OK way to dress or dance or whatever.”
At some point, do we not know what our culture is? How many Super Bowls do we have to sit through before we realize that this is exactly what we should expect? Why do we go through this seemingly every year? Why are we continually shocked by what our children were exposed to – as if we had no control over it whatsoever? Who was it that knowingly allowed their child to sit there when the network was about to show a performance from two singers widely known for doing exactly what they did Sunday evening? The network didn’t do that.
Shakira and J-Lo aren’t at fault here. We are.
Turn the TV off. Everyone take a nice long break from the game. Eat. Talk. Pray. Sing. Whatever you want to do. If it means accidentally missing the first few plays of the third quarter, is that really a problem?
We need to stop letting the world set the discussion for us, passively allow it to preach to our kids, then try to do damage control after the fact – and then wonder why our kids are embracing sensuality.
